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  • Uniqa Insurance to close 1/3 of its locations in Austria and cut 600 jobs

    Uniqa Insurance to close 1/3 of its locations in Austria and cut 600 jobs

    As part of UNIQA Insurance Group AG new ”growth strategy”, it is necessary to close a third of the sites in Austria and cut 600 jobs, Heute reports.

    Most of this job cuts are to be made in Austria, by 2022.

    However, the reduction in staff should be ”to the greatest extent possible” through natural departures and consensual contractual solutions.

    At EUR 213 million, pre-tax profit was maintained at the previous year’s level, with consolidated net income amounting to a whopping EUR 165 million. 

    Even more, over the past nine years, the number of customers has doubled to 15 million, and the dividend per share increased for the seventh year in a row.

  • Uniqa Insurance Group to pay 0.18 euro / share dividend

    Uniqa Insurance Group to pay 0.18 euro / share dividend

    Uniqa Insurance Group announces the dividend for 2019 financial year: 18 cents per share.

    The dividend payment date is 8 June 2020.

    Johann Strobl, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), was elected to the Supervisory Board of UNIQA Insurance Group AG by the Annual General Meeting.

    Long-time bank manager Johann Strobl was Chief Risk Officer at RBI/RZB from 2007 to 2017 and Deputy CEO at RBI from 2013 to 2017. He has been the CEO of RBI, one of the leading banks in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe, since 2017. A business administration graduate, he has worked in the banking industry since 1989 and has served in Management Board positions since 2004.

    Erwin Hameseder left UNIQA’s Supervisory Board at the end of the Annual General Meeting on 25 May 2020.